Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-12-17
Genius.
An Interesting Interpretation ofthe "wiz-
 x.rt. af Immateriai Wealth"


 possess what all of them cannot pur- chase. They move among their fellows as light giyers, Gs spirit magnets, as walking m4ryels; ihe enchan,eIs of in tellect, the builders of soll mansions, the wizards Oi iGmateIial wealth. Tbey are univeraal travellers, welcomed irlO every land and nation, making Illus trlous the place Ot their birth. They speak to all peoples kings die, and em- pires decay, bu; they live On lu ever in cteasing youth. No unEiTulGtions Cf science. DO college curriculum, or pRsch- meut diplomas eau bfin2 them mo recognition or authority. Homer lives, though the oldsn Greece Is dead. Bunyan still keeps upon his pilgTamage, whils his steevers-persecutoTs are re- mem5ered only for their vices and fOllies. Shskespe are will delight with his sump- tuous creations, vnon the Tudor mon archs are recoilecisd ss buried mIU,- mes. ChattcrtoD, the marvellous bOy, Cooper, the melancholy author of hIs "rssk," Barns, the Ayrshire plOwman, and Goethe, the regal poet, romsncer, unilo-opher in one, will be read, eulO- yiged, and preserved in monument and
 picture when these United States sbBil grow old in historic age.
 Genius has always been held m edml- ration, and ss enthroned power has been
 regarded above law or public sentiment. SO peoIle Of genius have been regarded
 by misled opinion as eXeuE8b!e from or
 dinary obligations of decorun and
 morality. AlexsndeT's wTy neck WAS ILni-
 tsted by fashion because IL WAS hi7, and
 tine immortal eccentricities Of brilliant
 minds, have been excused or palliated, because ot their connections with what
 WAS uncommon. The pBtric;sn may trsmple on the "Decalogue," but the plebian must observe the Sermon on the Mount. The brilliant Byron may be toe central figure of lust saturnBlIs, but the commonplace civis must observe ibe sgrctities of home.
 A Fanny Ellesler, because shs Is pol ei in pantalettes Ii, lyinS Dyml b, may bound over sll liEe5 separating vice trOIa
 virtue, and oil deeency, but the dairy u.an's daughter, whose duties rrqulre slow and modest grace, must never tOi-
 get the virtues of DorcRs. What uEt- tors it If q Madam Rachel or a Bern hsrdt, shame the household virtues and | domestic sanctlHes? Do they not ohHfm 1 and fascinate amid swelling music, fall ing boQuets and Rpplauding throERs! W nat matters 1t If virtue b.esds Sbiie
 pleasure rules She haurl In holding the
 mirror up to nature, vEy can't about the pattern on the mouut1
 Whet has good acting to do with good
 ,ivinR? IL d renowned meIaphysioIsu ike Stuart, will disregard the marriage
 code, e Mary WOOlslonocrsfi lead tho
 way before him with William Goodwin,
 exceptionally unique with hls wizard pen. Why should Ii be s wOn3er1ent ! |! George Eliot "Oe willing to be called the wife of Mf. Lewes," while dispensing ' s1th the marriage covenant? Miss laar- | isu Evans before the connection, while ! m ig and alter his death, subscribing herself Bliss dauGn Evans still? These | four were of folT-squsTe genIus, ss :Es | old Greeks TOu.d osll 1t. A person pTe- | eminentiy endowed; but would tLiI | mental brilhancy briLg with ii heEy- | suly dlspensBtiJn from the laws of WIT
 tue and the obligations of Q good exam | pie? l. the brightest light tO act a | tslse IO human trust? Is less feqgi5ei from greatness thsn iram meuiocsity? {? 1 Shall the favored stumble Ri nOOndsy | upon the mountains. Eblle tte piOtIoT1 ! walk safely in the oO cure vallsy2
 | Nc have slwsys supposed Shat fFyf3 | thosC tO whom mucE were given much ! wolid oe required. IL there are bBy i 'Tial-minded people n the 01.li | ahoCe see from heh-eH Co eaEtb, isui- | earth to hsayec, if minds 90 c0nsTuC5tI | iikc toe Beveiator's !IvIng 6IIag, "iuli Ct | eyes before sLd behind" whose ihCuga 9 | wander through eteIulty Lnd como q, | ordinary mo.tals with ;heiT rich spO.! | Is needs not much common sense to d. termIne that they should be help, | guides aad inspirations tO those less fG
 v0red and nos serve Gs hiudrsnces, | stumbling blocks aud disc0urageEeEts | in seeking whatsoever things are Oi | good report. We thiHk tha. mind COZ soiOus of uch oadOwuents should feel It
 s vesting duty tO ba n hEcipnsat for those
 less qualified, less favored for tho CT | gag msnts ci life. To subtract from TO
 virtue. darken DO hope, mIsleGd DO ss-
 piretIoE. hinder no reform aad nisreu-
 recent no ordination of God.
 Let Dickens venr tt8 lEurCls of h'C
 beautiful creations, yet let his admirers
 confess their dis8ppointI2eEt at his fsi.
 ure ns a husband. Teaching reform, ye:
 discoureging temperance by hIs pen and
 example; commanding the religion Of
 his country, yet introducing ils pro- fessors and ministers gB weak hypOcrites; | protesting himself believer 10 Christ. get listening to the vilest and worse player or Hctor with great patience and | respect. No matter how poor She play. | always remarkably careful never to s.;r.
 or cause any sound ID hIs box whereby | Al \ | showing any lack of attention tO such plays, or actors. Yet never was knoE3
 10 worship in a church with any preach
 CT, such Gs Melville, Sturgeon, Parker, Farrar, Newman srd Hall. Men whJ
 were able to hold his attention for Hn
 hour. A geIiIs, catching a, folliss @
 they fe- about him, to entertain his fol- lows, and iiyicg with human woes eld
 frEilties yet falling with DO voice ;o speak or eyes tO see, when neEr ta1
 msTvels of eternity.
 George Eliot wGs e woman unusually
 gifted; greater than Hannah Moore or Charlotte Bronte. the equal If not the
 superior of Mrs. Browning; yet, coming
 under an eclipse, how uncertain her
 light-how sad her end! No woman could have drawn surh z character Hs
 DiDah MOrris, who had not in early life
 been familiar with divine originals, Eld
 caught sight of the Noun, Ot BeaG- tudes. We read Adam Bede with eyes
 sufused with tears, yet coon wiped dry with s thAnkful and rejoicing spirit
 We in the frs. as if VIC were Gnos.ics indeed We oCme 10 the last aud we
 scy, well AgDosiicism, and tn these con clusiocs we must come at lsst.
 Was her companion, Loves, genirs? Perhaps he was, but b. made q terrible lse of 1t when no darksned such a soul as that of Marian Evans. Was that the blst he oOuld do for ber? Maybe so, for how can sgnos'icisu convey either | light or reason or hope? Let not such 2 nsn talk of goDins; from vhst-for
 yhat-to whstS Let them never speak of poetry; they would place ihe poet in | T boitonless pii ot mephi.ic gas, wkerc l fancy snd Imagination could never | spread tbeIr wings. A mental creation l like thst O! Dinsh MOrTis-snd she hai | some originsls-couldn never sprIng from Huxley or LeEes' material cogitations, ard ia such a world ss they would make; -Ec Ej-it -eerch for her with Eiisco's ,iChts in vain. T. vas o,sluod that ,5;s ".-.-ra. "a s oa-r -,ff-rr r- n---.o -